Day in Photos: June 22, 2012

Airlie Dodds, wearing a World War I-era nurse’s uniform, paces through a display of medical tents. The installation, part of the “Nurses: From Zululand to Afghanistan” exhibition at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra, tells personal stories of service nurses.

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Students in Manila devour packaged meals passed out in the slums by the local government, which distributed food in celebration of the 441th anniversary of the capital city.

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A child stands atop a peaceful-looking tank near the “Mother of the Fatherland” statue in Kiev.

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Yves Rossy, known as the Jetman, flies alongside a Breitling DC-3 over Lake Lucerne in Switzerland. Strapped to his carbon-kevlar Jetwing, he hopped from a helicopter and flew within view of the plane’s passengers.

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Chinese children dressed as rice dumplings dance on stage at the opening of the Duanwu Festival at Shunyi Olympic Park in Beijing.

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A firefighter tries to douse the remains of a New Delhi slum after a fire swept through Friday, destroying hundreds of shanties where residents had collected scrap plastic and rubber for resale.

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A couple kisses while cooling off in a fountain on a hot summer day in downtown Donetsk, Ukraine.

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A Palestinian youth flees Israeli troops during clashes in the West Bank village of Kufr Qaddum.

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A gorgeous Greek fan shows her colors from the stands before kickoff at her team’s quarterfinal Euro 2012 loss to Germany.

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Thousands, gathered in support of the Muslim Brotherhood’s presidential candidate Mohamed Morsy, stop for midday prayers in Cairo’s Tahrir Square.

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Police officers in Bolivia surround the Police Intelligence headquarters, near the Government Palace in La Paz. The cops attacked the palace and burned documents demanding salaries on par with soldiers.

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Flood waters overtake a Moose Lake, Minn., school near Moosehead Lake. FEMA is expected to be in the area next week to start tallying the damage to 14 counties and one Indian reservation.

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Zhenkun Duan of China competes in the Waterski Women’s Wakeboard Final at the Asian Beach Games at Jiulong Lake in Haiyang, China.

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The layer of algae is no problem for this guy, who cools off in a pond on the outskirts of Calcutta.

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Workers survey the remains of a dormitory that housed monks before collapsing. The crew was working to raise the area, in Ayutthaya north of Bangkok, to combat potential flooding.

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A couple releases one of thousands of lanterns released into the air in Poznan, Poland, in celebration of the shortest night of the year.

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Afghan security forces investigate the scene of an apparent Taliban massacre of about two dozen at the Spozhmai hotel on Lake Qurgha,